410619 - Unaccounted airmen - 19-6-1941

[Henk Welting]

What were the places of death registration for:

AC1 Thomas H. BROWN - 1102531;
LAC (Pilot u/t) Victor L. DEROO - 1066756;
AC1 Thomas JONES - 948629;
P/O (Pilot) Kenneth LANCASTER - 101484;
P/O (Pilot) Kenneth H. ROWLANDS - 86348 - 152 Sqn (Portreath, Cornwall);
AC2 Kenneth TREVARTON - 1279351, and
Cpl Clifford WADDINGTON - 1155761.

Proposed aircraft losses for this day:

Oxford II - V3563 - 6 FTS - damaged byond repair in accident; no further details.
Spitfire IIA - P8019 - 1 Del Flt - overshot landing at St.Eval.
Tiger Moth II - R5031 - 7 EFTS - abandoned Ellistown, Leicestershire.

I fear no match of any airman to proposed a/c losses.
Regards and thanks for your help.
Henk.

[Dick]

Hi Henk
The only likely Jones I found is age 19 (as on CWGC) and is registered at Peterborough where Cwgc has this Jones buried.
Lancaster,28,registered at Louth ,Lincolnshire.
Rowlands,21, is registered at Redruth, Cornwall, possibly the Spitfire at St Eval
Treverton,19, is registered at Trowbridge,Wiltshire
Waddington.31, registered at Rugby, Warwickshire.
The only Thomas H Brown was age 62,registered at Bideford, Devon
and Deroo didn't come up at all
Regards
Dick

[davew]

Henk

Deroo not on CWGC?

Regards

DaveW

[Dick]

Dave
Victor Louis Deroo ,19, is on CWGC, buried at Halton, but I couldn't find him on the England and Wales Register. CWGC has his N-O-K as a mother in Liverpool, so he wasn't taken home for burial.Apart from an airfield and Apprentices Training, I believe Halton was also an RAF Hospital. If he died anywhere near there he ought to be registered at Aylesbury.
Regards
Dick

[Ken MacLean]

Henk,

Times Honour Rolls:

AC1 T.H. BROWN DOAS
LAC V.L. DEROO KOAS
P/O K. LANCASTER KOAS
P/O K.H. ROWLANDS KIA
AC2 K. TREVARTON KOAS
CPL C. WADDINGTON DOAS

Ken

[davew]

Thanks Dick, another look turns up Deroc Victor L registered 3rd qtr 1941 at Aylesbury

regards

DaveW

[Dick]

Hi Henk
For Victor Deroo,what Dave has just put up (with the typo in the register) could be the man, if again the death required the attention of a Coroner and the registration was delayed.
Regards
Dick

[dennis_burke]

AC2 K Treverton is listed DOAS in the Flight casualty listings, different to what Ken reported above. Magazine dated Sep 25th 1941.

Other wise all others match up with Flight listings.

There is a AC1 T Jones listed DOAS also in July 24th magazine.

[malcolm_raf]

Deroo was registered in Aylesbury

Malcolm

[wwrsimon]

Hello

LAC (Pilot u/t) Victor L. DEROO - 1066756 - he's listed as being with No. 1 E.F.T.S. on the Graves Registration Report Form, and the Liverpool Evening Express of July 4th reports that he "has been killed whilst flying."

P/O (Pilot) Kenneth LANCASTER - 101484 - listed as being with 56 O.T.U. on the Graves Registration Report Form, and the following is on the findagrave website:

https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=91994755&ref=acom

"From Lincolnshire's 'Bomber County Aviation Resource':- While on a cross-country flight, Pilot Officer Lancaster's aircraft suffered a problem in very bad weather; the airman was killed in the incident."

Cpl Clifford WADDINGTON - 1155761 - the Rugby Advertiser of June 24th 1941 reported the following:

R.A.F. CORPORAL KILLED
Watford Gap Fatality
A verdict that he died from injuries received when he drove his motor-cycle too fast round a "notorious corner" was returned by the Coroner (Mr. E. F. Hadow) at the inquest at Rugby on Saturday on Corporal Clifford Waddington (31), R.A.F., who was killed at Watford Gap, on the Watling Street, last Thursday afternoon.

Regards

Simon

[jonheyworth]

Kenneth Trevarton 1279351 , attached to Number 12 SOTT, became seriously ill on 6th June and was admitted to hospital in Trowbridge where his condition worsened on the 11th and he died of tuberculosis and broncho pneumonia

[jonheyworth]

Thomas Jones 948629 , attached to Number 25 ( P ) EFTS, died in Peterborough Memorial hospital of peritonitis following appendicitis